Class 5b: Population and Migration

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Class 5b Population and Migration

• Push and pull factors
• Types of migration
• Determining destinations

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Migration basics

• Long-distance change of residence and activity
  space
• Pull and push factors
• International or internal
• Voluntary or forced
• Affects both receiving and sending places

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Pull and push factors

• Pulls economic opportunity, natural resources,
  climate, freedom
• Pushes war or conflict, natural disaster,
  population pressure
• Political or economic trends
• Changes in life cycle or career cycle

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International migration

• 3 of world population
• Wide range of push and pull factors
• Major cultural and political impacts
• Remittances to home country

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U.S. 11 California 26.2
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California 26.2 Sacramento Co. 16.1
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Sac. Co. 16.1 Folsom 2.5 Fruitridge 39.6
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New England Plymouth, MA Jamestown, VA
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Harlem Schuylkill, NY Holland, MI
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Baton Rouge, LA Sault Ste. Marie, MI Fond du Lac,
WI
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Germantown, PA Frankfort, KY New Berlin, WI
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New Uppsala, WI Bergen, MN Denmark, IA
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Little Italy (NY, SF) Pulaski Ave.
(Chi) Ukrainian Village (Chi)
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Internal migration

• From one region or state to another

1998-1999 (thousands)
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Internal migration

• Rural to urban migration
• Push land or income shortage
• Pull jobs

• Historically goes with industrialization
• Population shift in developing countries

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Voluntary or forced

• Voluntary free choice
• Forced not your choice
• Slavery
• Refugees
• Redevelopment

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Where to?

• Hierarchy of destination decision-making
• Different scales mean different factors
• Country
• Region or city
• Neighborhood

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Where to?

• Migration field for a given place, where people
  tend to come from and go to
• Distance or accessibility
• Cultural or social similarity
• Personal contacts

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Where to?

• Channelized migration historical patterns matter
• Great Migration (1890-1920)
• 500,000 African-Americans
• Economic/social push
• Economic pull
• North to South and rural to urban

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Where to?

• Return migration back to place of origin
• Up to 25 of all migrants
• Unsuccessful trip, or the goal all along
• Guestworkers intended to be temporary

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U.S. Immigration and California

• Unrestricted immigration till 1880s
• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
• National Origins Act of 1924
• 1934 restrictions on Filipinos
• Bracero program of 1942-1964
• Today, preference to families or skilled workers

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